Sabir Badalkhan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195331370
- eISBN:
- 9780199868087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331370.003.0012
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter investigates the texts, contexts, and performance characteristics associated with zahīrok in Karachi, Pakistan, and the Makran area of Pakistan and Iran. Zahīrok refers to a musical ...
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This chapter investigates the texts, contexts, and performance characteristics associated with zahīrok in Karachi, Pakistan, and the Makran area of Pakistan and Iran. Zahīrok refers to a musical genre as well as a set of melody types and a category of emotion. Baloch understand the zahīrok to be at the very foundation of their music; it is an important basis for local Baluch musical theorizing.Less
This chapter investigates the texts, contexts, and performance characteristics associated with zahīrok in Karachi, Pakistan, and the Makran area of Pakistan and Iran. Zahīrok refers to a musical genre as well as a set of melody types and a category of emotion. Baloch understand the zahīrok to be at the very foundation of their music; it is an important basis for local Baluch musical theorizing.
Luc Bellon
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190845780
- eISBN:
- 9780190943011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190845780.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
This article explores the incidents linked to Baloch nationalism, highlighting what is at play behind this urban armed struggle, with a special focus on the city of Quetta—the capital city of ...
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This article explores the incidents linked to Baloch nationalism, highlighting what is at play behind this urban armed struggle, with a special focus on the city of Quetta—the capital city of Balochistan, Pakistan's most underdeveloped province. Since 2000, and for the first time, violent clashes of very different natures coincided in the city: target killings by Baloch nationalists, suicide attacks from militant Islamist groups, assassinations against the Shi'ite (primarily Hazara) community, and a growing non-politically motivated criminality perpetuating a number of murders and kidnappings. The legitimization of some aspects of this violence by a population witnessing but not producing it enables the reconfiguration of social relationships and/or spaces in the urban context. In particular, the chapter argues that violence, far from bringing about a rejection and delegitimization of groups using it, can on the contrary redefine the relationship between social groups, leading in particular to the marginalization of the groups it targets.Less
This article explores the incidents linked to Baloch nationalism, highlighting what is at play behind this urban armed struggle, with a special focus on the city of Quetta—the capital city of Balochistan, Pakistan's most underdeveloped province. Since 2000, and for the first time, violent clashes of very different natures coincided in the city: target killings by Baloch nationalists, suicide attacks from militant Islamist groups, assassinations against the Shi'ite (primarily Hazara) community, and a growing non-politically motivated criminality perpetuating a number of murders and kidnappings. The legitimization of some aspects of this violence by a population witnessing but not producing it enables the reconfiguration of social relationships and/or spaces in the urban context. In particular, the chapter argues that violence, far from bringing about a rejection and delegitimization of groups using it, can on the contrary redefine the relationship between social groups, leading in particular to the marginalization of the groups it targets.
David Gilmartin
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520285293
- eISBN:
- 9780520960831
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520285293.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This chapter focuses on the early years of colonial water development in the Indus basin, and in particular, on the mid-nineteenth-century history of irrigation and canalbuilding among Baloch ...
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This chapter focuses on the early years of colonial water development in the Indus basin, and in particular, on the mid-nineteenth-century history of irrigation and canalbuilding among Baloch tribesmen on the trans-Indus frontier in Upper Sind and in Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab. Baloch chiefs took active roles in irrigation investment, but often with assumptions about the politics of irrigation—and its relationship to tribal authority—that were far different from those of the British. The chapter explores the ways that British and Baloch ideas intersected and traces the evolving role of tribal and genealogical community as an important element in British thinking on irrigation investment.Less
This chapter focuses on the early years of colonial water development in the Indus basin, and in particular, on the mid-nineteenth-century history of irrigation and canalbuilding among Baloch tribesmen on the trans-Indus frontier in Upper Sind and in Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab. Baloch chiefs took active roles in irrigation investment, but often with assumptions about the politics of irrigation—and its relationship to tribal authority—that were far different from those of the British. The chapter explores the ways that British and Baloch ideas intersected and traces the evolving role of tribal and genealogical community as an important element in British thinking on irrigation investment.
Nida Kirmani
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190656546
- eISBN:
- 9780190848460
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190656546.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter by Nida Kirmani offers a rare academic study on Lyari. It historicizes Lyari’s development as a contradictory ‘no-go’ site of resistance, protest and gang warfare. This perspective is ...
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This chapter by Nida Kirmani offers a rare academic study on Lyari. It historicizes Lyari’s development as a contradictory ‘no-go’ site of resistance, protest and gang warfare. This perspective is organized around two of Lyari’s most notorious protagonists, Rehman Dakait and Uzair Baloch. Drawing on narratives of fear that comprise and interweave into everyday life in Lyari, she analyzes the persistent question of the extent to which gang war constitutes politics, rather than being separate to or an obstacle to politics. Through a portrait of Rehman as a community ‘Robin Hood’ figure, Kirmani’s analysis describes a geographic mapping of the paradox of ‘military-humanitarianism’ at the level of local gang warfare. This both mirrors, and also provokes, some original insights into ways these projects are inextricably linked in national and international politics.Less
This chapter by Nida Kirmani offers a rare academic study on Lyari. It historicizes Lyari’s development as a contradictory ‘no-go’ site of resistance, protest and gang warfare. This perspective is organized around two of Lyari’s most notorious protagonists, Rehman Dakait and Uzair Baloch. Drawing on narratives of fear that comprise and interweave into everyday life in Lyari, she analyzes the persistent question of the extent to which gang war constitutes politics, rather than being separate to or an obstacle to politics. Through a portrait of Rehman as a community ‘Robin Hood’ figure, Kirmani’s analysis describes a geographic mapping of the paradox of ‘military-humanitarianism’ at the level of local gang warfare. This both mirrors, and also provokes, some original insights into ways these projects are inextricably linked in national and international politics.
Sarah Ahmed
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- October 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190927097
- eISBN:
- 9780190927127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190927097.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Crime and Justice, Communities and Organizations
Qandeel Baloch, a controversial Pakistani social media star, was killed by her brother in 2016 in the name of “honor.” Using Qandeel’s honor killing as a case study, this chapter analyzes honor ...
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Qandeel Baloch, a controversial Pakistani social media star, was killed by her brother in 2016 in the name of “honor.” Using Qandeel’s honor killing as a case study, this chapter analyzes honor killings to gain a better understanding of what they are, their prevalence, and the factors attributable to them, particularly in South Asia. The chapter also examines the role that social media has played globally in giving marginalized populations a voice and platform online while simultaneously making them more vulnerable to cyberbullying, harassment, and, in Qandeel’s case, even death. Through contextual and empirical accounts, the chapter cautions readers to not think of honor killings as a faith-based problem confined to a particular geographical region but, rather, as a larger epidemic that is strongly rooted in a culture that persists, to a small extent, in developed countries as well.Less
Qandeel Baloch, a controversial Pakistani social media star, was killed by her brother in 2016 in the name of “honor.” Using Qandeel’s honor killing as a case study, this chapter analyzes honor killings to gain a better understanding of what they are, their prevalence, and the factors attributable to them, particularly in South Asia. The chapter also examines the role that social media has played globally in giving marginalized populations a voice and platform online while simultaneously making them more vulnerable to cyberbullying, harassment, and, in Qandeel’s case, even death. Through contextual and empirical accounts, the chapter cautions readers to not think of honor killings as a faith-based problem confined to a particular geographical region but, rather, as a larger epidemic that is strongly rooted in a culture that persists, to a small extent, in developed countries as well.
Christophe Jaffrelot
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190235185
- eISBN:
- 9780190492229
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190235185.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
After the creation of Bangladesh, the rise to power of a Sindhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, contributed to the Pakistanization of Sindh. While Pashtun nationalism was diluted, the Baloch Self-Determination ...
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After the creation of Bangladesh, the rise to power of a Sindhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, contributed to the Pakistanization of Sindh. While Pashtun nationalism was diluted, the Baloch Self-Determination Movement re-emerged every ten years or so and Muhajir Militancy intensified in the 1980s. The eighteenth constitutional amendment (passed in 2010) was intended to promote national integration through increased federalism and the regionalization of politics, but it has not really been implemented.Less
After the creation of Bangladesh, the rise to power of a Sindhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, contributed to the Pakistanization of Sindh. While Pashtun nationalism was diluted, the Baloch Self-Determination Movement re-emerged every ten years or so and Muhajir Militancy intensified in the 1980s. The eighteenth constitutional amendment (passed in 2010) was intended to promote national integration through increased federalism and the regionalization of politics, but it has not really been implemented.
